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  1. adjective Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked: a bare arm.
  2. adjective Exposed to view; undisguised: bare fangs.
  3. adjective Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration: bare walls.
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  • The chapel was huge, bare, and still unfinished, one of the great monuments of the Oxford Movement and the Gothic revival. —  The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
  • The walls themselves were bare, and no carpet adorned the floor. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
  • Joscelin, wild-eyed, was on his feet in an instant, sword bare in his right hand, staring about for danger. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
  • Tess was grateful the trees were bare, allowing her to see for some distance. —  In a Strange City
  • Her breasts were bare, and that made sense—but she was also wearing black jeans and sneakers, which made no sense at all. —  Lunatics
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naked ·  narrow ·  smooth ·  barren ·  wooden

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bare:   barest ·  bared ·  baring
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English bar, from Old English bær; see bhoso- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English bare, bar, from Anglo-Saxon bær = Old Saxon bar = OFries. ber = Dutch baar = Old High German Middle High German bar, German bar, baar = Icelandic berr = Swedish Danish bar = Old Bulgarian bosŭ = Lithuanian basus, bosus, bare; orig. meaning prob. ‘shining’; cf. Sanskrit √ bhās, shine.
  2. from Middle English baren, from Anglo-Saxon barian (in comp. ābarian), also berian (= Old High German barōn = Icelandic bera), make bare, from bær, bare: see bare, a.
 

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